Guitar-Buddy

Guitar Buddy Master the Fretboard by Ear – Notes, Chords, Melodies & Real‑Time Pitch Detection

Unlock the guitar fretboard and train your musical ear with Guitar Buddy – a focused practice companion for guitarists who want to really know what they're playing, not just where to put their fingers.

Whether you're a beginner learning the notes on the neck or an experienced player sharpening your chord recognition, melodic ear, and intonation, Guitar Buddy guides you through structured, interactive training sessions.

KEY FEATURES

MELODY JOURNEY – PROGRESSIVE 165-LEVEL ADVENTURE: Embark on a structured ear training path that takes you from beginner to expert.

• 165 carefully designed levels organized into 33 topic groups • Progressive difficulty that builds upon previous skills • Train with everything from simple intervals to complex chromatic melodies • Track your progress with detailed statistics and completion percentages • Unlock new topics as you master previous ones

Perfect for guitarists who want a clear roadmap to fretboard mastery, one level at a time.

FIVE FOCUSED TRAINING MODES

NOTES TRAINING: Learn every note on the fretboard and finally make sense of the neck layout. Practice note recognition across the entire fretboard, with focus on specific fret ranges.

MELODIES TRAINING: Train your ear to identify melodic sequences based on different scales. Choose from various difficulty levels and melody lengths.

CHORDS TRAINING: Develop your chord vocabulary by ear and by shape. Train with a wide variety of chord types, enable inversions, and challenge yourself with "guess first" style sessions.

CHORD PROGRESSIONS TRAINING: Listen to a chord progression and identify each chord in sequence. Three difficulty levels take you from common two-chord patterns to complex four-chord sequences.

INTERVAL SINGING: Train your inner ear by singing intervals before you play them. Listen to a root note, sing the target interval, then verify your pitch against a chord. Three difficulty levels covering all 11 intervals. Choose ascending, descending, or mixed direction.

EXPLORE: SCALES, CHORDS & INTERVALS

Browse an interactive reference covering scales, chords, and intervals – all visualized on the fretboard.

• See every chord shape with correct note names and play it back directly • Browse all intervals with visual highlights and famous reference melodies you can play • Explore scale patterns across the full neck

INTERACTIVE FRETBOARD VIEW

A beautifully designed virtual fretboard shows you exactly where notes and chords appear on the neck. Optimized for portrait and landscape on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

BUILT-IN AUDIO ANALYZER

• Enable the microphone-based analyzer to detect what you play in real time • See the detected note name and octave as you play on your own instrument • Use it to check intonation, pitch accuracy, and ear-to-fretboard connection

FLEXIBLE PRACTICE SETTINGS

• Choose your training focus: Journey, Notes, Melodies, Chords, Chord Progressions, or Interval Singing • Limit practice to specific fret ranges • Select chord types to include, with optional inversion challenges • Choose interval playback as melodic or harmonic, and set direction • Adjust difficulty levels across all training modes

DESIGNED FOR REAL PROGRESS

Guitar Buddy is a focused training tool – not a game with distractions. It helps you:

• Internalize note locations across the entire fretboard • Recognize chords by name and structure • Develop your inner ear for intervals and melodies • Build long-term fretboard fluency

IDEAL FOR

• Guitarists who know shapes but want to understand the actual notes • Students preparing for music theory exams • Self-taught players filling in fretboard and harmony gaps • Musicians developing melodic ear and interval recognition

Take control of your fretboard knowledge and ear training. Download Guitar Buddy and start turning guesswork into confidence – one note, one chord, and one melody at a time.